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Purchas his pilgrimage, or, Relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discouered, from the creation vnto this present : in foure partes : this first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent : declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathnish, Jewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... with briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same

by: Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626; Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer; Featherstone, Henry, -1647, bookseller; Gilman, Nathaniel Clark, former onwer. MB; Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, former owner. MB

Publication date: 1613

Topics: Geography

Publisher: London : Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Signatures: ¶⁶ A⁸ B⁴ C-3V⁶.

3v6=blank

Pagination irregular, with numerous errors in numbering

Head- and tailpieces; initials

Includes bibliographical references and index

English short title catalogue

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarterbound in black goatskin and papier tourniquet. Spine title stamped in gilt. BPL bookplate. Autograph of Nathaniel Clark Gilman at head of the title page. "Fra: Layton ex dono Tho: Layton" inscribed above imprint. BPL embossed stamp on title page and first page of main body text. Pen trials throughout. Early manuscript annotations within index. Upper portion of 2R6 excised and replaced with a blank slip. Purchased from the auction of Caleb Cushing's library in October, 1879.

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.CHECK-IN NOTES:

-Several pages after leaf ~546 have small holes on text in outer ends; black card stock used underneath.

-Original material has undulated pages throughout; text is still legible.

The pagination is irregular on the pages between 470 and 473.

Page number 489 is repeated twice in the original material. Pagination jumps from page 674 to 677.

Addeddate: 2017-01-05 18:05:04

Associated-names: Stansby, William, active 1597-1638, printer; Featherstone, Henry, -1647, bookseller; Gilman, Nathaniel Clark, former onwer; Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879, former owner